By: Dreamer
"Pure heart."
Straight on this long, continuing road
There is surely something to believe in
I walked through the forest knowing damn well that Bakuryu had already found Aires. He is always one step ahead of me, no matter what I do. For some reason my anger seemed to rise and it wouldn't go down. It felt like my muscles were expanding and I had a pain in my chest that wouldn't stop growing.
I fell to the ground holding onto my head. Finally the pressure became too much and I screamed out in pain. I looked down at my hands and my fingernails were longer...
after that everything's blank.
I couldn't believe it. Gabe can actually transform! He looks much like my Mom but deadlier. Nothing could stop him, not even me. He had started to attack Aires while she was distracted and I jumped in the way and he knocked me out of the way and straight through a tree. I was knocked out because of it.
"Seems I've got a challenge," I thought.
After Gabe hit my sister, Kenji, through a tree... I lost it. For the first time in my life I went after an enemy without weighing my options. He looked just like my mother when she was in this form, just a lot smaller. I'm thinking he's built for speed. I charged at him and started throwing punches at him and he returned every one of them, he dodged all of mine.
"Damn," I thought, again, "he's good."
I hated to compliment my enemy like that, but it was the truth. There's only one thing that I'm happy about right now. Kenji and Aires don't seem to be "blessed," with our curse. With him returning my punches and me not landing a single blow, it pissed me off to the point where I transformed.
I sensed their transformations. I felt Bakuryu's before I felt Gabe's. I warned Cloud and took off to stop them. When I got there, Bakuryu and Gabe were trading blow for blow. Punch, punch, kick, kick, energy blast. It went on until I was finally drug into the fight.
I forced myself to transform into the half I was like Bakuryu... I could at least control myself compared to them. I knew when to stop. Cloud then followed my lead when she showed up. We each grabbed our kids and held them there. Cloud was able to get Bakuryu to calm down before I could get Gabe too.
He was refusing to return to "normal," so I threw him literally as hard as I could at Cloud and threw her strongest beam at him. Her strongest one that wouldn't kill him. He fell to the ground... he barely had any scratches so that means that form drains him quickly of his energy. Which is good in some way and bad in others.
Like a traveler in the midst of the wind,
I have my eyes on the northern sky
About the only thing that I remembered was looking to the sky and seeing the sunset. Everyone else filled me in on what I went through and what I did. I couldn't believe them... I actually can transform? I don't believe them. But the evidence proves their story. But why don't I remember anything? It was so confusing that I looked to the sky and watched the stars fade away into the dawn. There was a slight breeze that calmed my spirit and I fell asleep by the tree that I knocked Kenji through...